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What causes fingers to "freeze up"?
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Trigger finger: Typically has a locking or clicking tendon, other things can click in a finger or thumb such as a joint, a tendon snapping over a bone spur , other areas of tendon irritation in the wrist, even a cyst or tumor on a tendon or just a joint click from. Normal motion but yes it sounds like the description you give is that of a trigger . Many get permanent relief from corticosteroid injection.
Answered 9/11/2019
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